03/07/2019
MacLaren believed that the practical problems of the world could best be solved by transforming the nature of human beings.
Am i committed to my transformation?
Are you committed to yours?
Just a gentle reminder that today is the Mahasamadhi (death) day of our dear Mr MacLaren. Mahasamadhi is merging the consciousness with nature which means parting the body
Leon MacLaren, born Leonardo da Vinci MacLaren (24 September 1910–24 June 1994), was a British philosopher and the founder of the School of Economic Science (SES). MacLaren was inspired by Henry George, Socrates, Dr Francis Roles, Pyotr Ouspensky, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and finally the philosophy of Advaita Vedānta through the Shankaracharya of Jyoti Math.
Maclaren said he was grateful to have inherited from his father three things: no religion, no education, and a strong desire to distrust experts.
At the age of sixteen, MacLaren contemplated how his life could best be put to the service of mankind, a one-word answer came to his mind, the word was "School".
Describing the experience when he was siting by a lake in Wimbledon Park when he says:
"It became very clear to me that there was such a thing as truth, and there was such a thing as justice, and that they could be found and, being found, could be taught. It seemed to me that that was the most valuable thing that one could pursue. So I resolved to pursue this when I was twenty-one."
Years later, in 1936, aided by his father Andrew MacLaren, he began an economic study group based on the Socratic method of inquiry that became The School of Economic Science.
MacLaren believed that the practical problems of the world could best be solved by transforming the nature of human beings.
